Prepared by the National Park Service, in collaboration with the Chesapeake Conservancy, this Conservation Strategy provides the means for defining priority conservation areas relative to the trail and designing appropriate conservation methods.
A 2013 look at how satellite-based classification of agricultural crops and best management practices (BMPs), could potentially be used by GIS analysts, who are not remote sensing specialists.
In the autumn of 2008, the Friends of the John Smith Chesapeake Trail (now the Chesapeake Conservancy) decided to explore the designation of several Chesapeake Bay tributaries as connecting trails to the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.
A 10th Anniversary Tribute to the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail established December 19, 2006.
Virginia’s efforts to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay through implementing agricultural conservation practices also removed over 459 thousand tons of carbon dioxide equivalent from the atmosphere in 2019, providing significant co-benefits for mitigating climate change.
In May 2013, the Chesapeake Conservancy and Aspen Institute hosted a roundtable exploring the role that conservation innovation can play in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the conservation community. roundtable.
In “Conserving Chesapeake Landscapes,” the Chesapeake Bay Commission and the Chesapeake Conservancy have recommended actions to promote and accelerate progress on land conservation in the Chesapeake watershed and enable the region’s governments to meet the new goal to conserve two million acres of land and create 300 public access points watershed-wide by 2025 and Virginia’s goal of 400,000 acres by 2014.
One of the goals of the John Smith Chesapeake Trail is to interpret Native life in the Middle Atlantic in the earliest years of colonization by Europeans. The Indigenous Cultural Landscape (ICL) concept was developed as an important tool for identifying Native landscapes along the Trail, both as they existed in the early 17th century and as they exist today.
The Envision the James (ETJ) initiative, launched by a team comprised of the Chesapeake Conservancy, the James River Association and National Geographic Maps in 2011, has encouraged individuals, community leaders and organizations to describe their vision for the James River watershed. This report details the results of the initial planning process and lays out a vision for the future of the James River.
The Envision the Susquehanna initiative was launched by a core team comprised of the Chesapeake Conservancy, the National Park Service, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition for Environmental Studies, Susquehanna Greenway Partnership, and the Wildlife Management Institute in 2013.
In support of the Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition, the Chesapeake Conservancy has produced the Green Infrastructure Report: Baltimore City to describe and promote three new technology resources to help guide the Coalition’s ongoing and future projects to expand and strengthen the network of green infrastructure in the Greater Baltimore Region.
Pennsylvania has invested billions of dollars in Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts since 1985 but has yet to meet its nitrogen and sediment goals. In a January 2016 report, A DEP Strategy to Enhance Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Bay Restoration Effort, the state called for a new strategy that emphasized “science-based, high-impact, low-cost projects on the ground working with partners in a focused manner.”
In 2012, Chesapeake Conservancy, with the support of the Digital Energy and Sustainability Solutions Campaign (DESSC), explored the role that technology could play in expanding the application of precision conservation; or getting the right practices, at the right scale, at the right time, in the right place.
In May 2009, President Barack Obama asked federal agencies to report on seven key challenges to protecting and restoring the Chesapeake Bay and to recommend strategies for addressing them.
The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Large Landscape Conservation Workshop convened at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia on August 16-17, 2012.
The Low Cost Water Quality Monitoring Needs Assessment report was performed by Chesapeake Conservancy’s Conservation Innovation Center to guide the Conservancy’s entry into the water quality monitoring field.
Identifying optimal solar sites and answering the key question: Are enough optimal sites available to meet Maryland’s renewable energy goals for solar energy?
Identifying optimal solar sites and answering the key question: Are enough optimal sites available to meet Maryland’s renewable energy goals for solar energy?
From the Environmental Policy Innovation Center and Chesapeake Conservancy, “Private Conservation Finance: The Chesapeake Bay’s Global Lead and How to Expand It,” examines private conservation finance in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington D.C.
The Chesapeake Conservancy has developed a suite of landscape-scale indicators and metrics to track the status of wildlife habitat throughout the James River watershed.
A Remarkable Conservation Success Story Along the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail
Released in November 2022, The Technical Study on Changes in Forest Cover and Tree Canopy in Maryland, or Maryland Forest Technical Study, commissioned by the Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology and conducted together with Chesapeake Conservancy and the University of Vermont, uses high-resolution data to analyze forest and tree canopy change at the local scale and provide a greater understanding of the key drivers of change.
Chesapeake Conservancy recently completed a report, funded by the Digital Energy and Sustainability Solutions Campaign, which explores the role that information and communications technology can play in guiding conservation efforts throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed and prioritizing the protection and restoration of the region’s most valuable ecosystems.
